How about training young people to investigate issues and resources in their communities? How about teaching them how to collect and fact-check information, provide background and context, summarize it all for their peers — and do it in a way guaranteed to make adults take note?

Ever since the pandemic began in March, we at Youth Catalytics have been talking about our collective...

After compiling the top answers from 25 stakeholder interviews, this Board realized that stakeholders’ #1 response to the question about where their organization was most successful was “I don’t know.”

If the drive toward diversity makes so much sense, why is actually achieving diversity so hard?

About 10 years ago, we started hearing from our direct-service colleagues that the girls in their programs were facing new pressures to look and act in sexual ways. While children in state care had always been at higher risk of sexual abuse than other kids, with all the attending behavioral fallout, it seemed like something new was happening. Something in the culture, perhaps.

These stories shifted my focus from “What does our agency need that volunteers can give us?” to “What do I sit in my office just wishing someone would do for my clients once in a while?”

If you’re saying ‘I’m so busy I can’t deal with volunteers,’ then you actually need the help of volunteers.